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 Researchers can manipulated data to show false conclusion. (Shutterstock photo)
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Journals requiring more transparency

A bogus University of Pennsylvania study helped jump-start a movement toward additional data disclosure. The focus on so-called ...

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Lawsuit thrusts civil forfeiture issue into the spotlight

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office takes in millions of dollars each year through civil forfeiture, though many aspects of ...

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Reporters Roundtable: Schools to open on time, Philly sets hopes high for DNC

Kevin McCorry reports that while schools will open on time, the district is still far from out of the woods when it comes to funding.&nbs ...

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Ex-offender now cautions youth about pitfalls of street life

In the late 1990s, North Philly resident John Phillips owned delis, a tricked-out Lexus, and lived in an upscale condo.  Not ...

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Heather Hodges and her son
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Sickle cell disease still persists 100 years after discovery

A look at sickle cell disease and why there aren’t more promising options for treatment. Eight year old Nadir Tinsley is get ...

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Though we often categorize infertility as a female issue
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Understanding male infertility and how it affects couples trying to get pregnant

Fertility experts like Dr. Liberty Barnes think gender has little role when problems getting pregnant arise. In the United States, ...

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I don't sleep well very often.  I have a lot of strange dreams and nightmares and I usually wake up distraught, - Toby Bodnar wrote as part of the veteran photo project. (Courtesy of the VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion)
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Training healthcare providers to ‘win the hearts and minds’ of veterans

Part of the VA system overhaul to address long patient wait times is to offer veterans more access to community-based primary care doctor ...

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(Shai Ben-Yaacov/WHYY)
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Philadelphia Woodworks carves out its niche [photos]

There’s nothing quite like the satisfaction of working with your hands. That’s what drove our guest on this week’s Reca ...

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 Matt Skoufalos (left), a writer, journalist and musician from New Jersey, talks with Rob Kulathinal, an evolutionary biologist and geneticist from Temple University.
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Taking CO2 out of the atmosphere to make plastics

What if you could take carbon dioxide out of our atmosphere, and actually use it to make stuff? We meet one professor who is trying to do ...

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Ruha Benjamin is a sociologist
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Debating wider participation in medical research

Author Ruha Benjamin says “the legacy of Tuskegee” is too often used as shorthand to refer to a perceived mistrust among blac ...

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Brandon Boyle
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The dangers of swimming in Philadelphia’s creeks

A grieving Philadelphia mom wants to make sure everyone knows that swimming in the creeks isn’t just illegal — it’s dan ...

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Thousand cankers disease makes its mark on black walnut trees. (Photo courtesy of Grant Jones)
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Thousand Cankers Disease prompts wood quarantine in Pa.

Caused by a fungus that’s transported by the walnut twig beetle, the disease attacks the innermost layer of a tree’s bark, ca ...

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Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

We Could Be King

Art — Produced by Michael O’Reilly In 2013, after 99 years, Germantown High School closed its doors forever. Budget c ...

12 years ago

 Trees at the Barnes Foundation Arboretum are receiving pesticide injections to protect them from the emerald ash borer. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Philly struts its stuff to woo the 2016 Democratic convention

More than a dozen officials from the Democratic National Committee came to Philadelphia Wednesday to answer a big question: Does the city ...

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(Mel Evans/AP file photo)
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Could a North Jersey casino save Atlantic City?

With the announcement that Revel Casino will close next month, the future of Atlantic City’s gaming business remains murky.  ...

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